Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

Beatles, 617

Beatrice of Burgundy, 134

Beatriz di Dia, 113

beauty, esthetics and, 541

Becket, Thomas. See Thomas àBecket,

Bedford, Duke of. See John of Lancaster,

Beethoven, Ludwig van,

Josquin parallels   with,    547 –49,    552 ,   579

Mass    composition by,  54

posthumous  legendary   status  of,  547 ,   548 ,   579

as  Romantic    icon,    548

Beethoven: The Man Who Freed Music (Schauffler), 579

Bele Ydoine (Audefroi), 120

Belgium, 536

Flemish composers,   277 ,   316 ,   453 ,   454 ,   455 –59

Gombert and,     589 –90

musician    emigrés from,    277 ,   518 –22,    544 ,   589 ,   605 –6,     676 –77,    713 ,   723 ,   733

Belshazzar, King, 94

Bembo, Pietro, 723

Benedicamus Domino (response), 160 –61

Benedict VIII, Pope, 34

Benedict XIII, Antipope, 378

Benedicta es, coelorum regina (Josquin), 580 –83, 601 –2, 633

Benedicta es, coelorum regina (Willaert), 601 –4

Benedictines, 22 , 23 , 50 , 71 , 76 , 90 , 93 , 100 , 111 , 138 , 387 , 402 , 408

Gregorian   chant   revision    and,     631 ,   632

Benedict of Nursia, Saint, 10 –11

Benedictus (Isaac), 543 –44, 545

Benedictus (Taverner), 612 –13, 614

Benedictus (Victoria), 789 –90

Benediktbeuren abbey, 138

benefices, 315 , 316

Beneventan chant, 64

Bennett, Tony, 817

Bent, Margaret, 417

Berg, Wesley, 27

Berger, Anna Maria Busse, 185